Man sentenced to death in Tenn. torture slaying

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. 
A Tennessee man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a couple has been sentenced to death.

The 28-year-old defendant, Lemaricus Davidson, showed no reaction Friday as jurors announced the sentence for the murders of 21-year-old college student Channon Christian and her 23-year-old boyfriend, Christopher Newsom.

Davidson was found guilty of abducting the couple in Knoxville during a 2007 carjacking by several armed men.

Both victims were raped. Newsom was fatally shot and Christian suffocated after she was choked and stuffed in a garbage bag and a trash can.

Davidson's brother was convicted in the same attack in August and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Two other defendants are awaiting trial.